When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool. Part of the Screen Directors Playhouse series, sponsored by Kodak, and in association with Screen Directors Guild.
Buster Keaton
as Kelsey Dutton
Zasu Pitts
as Selma
Joe E. Brown
as Arthur Vail
Evelyn Ankers
as Miss Loving
Jack Kruschen
as Ernie
Jack Elam
as Shanks
Percy Helton
as Barney
Joe Corey
as Arnold
Lyle Latell
as Ernie's friend
Charles Horvath
as Barber
Bob Hope
as Bob Hope (uncredited)
